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The GCT is an innovative dual-mirror solution proposed for the small-size telescopes for CTA, capable of imaging primary cosmic gamma-rays from below a TeV to hundreds of TeV. The reduced plate scale resulting from the secondary optics…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Thomas Armstrong , Heide Costantini , Cameron Rulten , Victor Stamatescu , Andreas Zech

Imaging of nuclear gamma-ray lines in the 1-10 MeV range is far from being established in both medical and physical applications. In proton therapy, 4.4 MeV gamma rays are emitted from the excited nucleus of either 12^C^* or 11^B^* and are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-17 Ayako Koide , Jun Kataoka , Takamitsu Masuda , Saku Mochizuki , Takanori Taya , Koki Sueoka , Leo Tagawa , Kazuya Fujieda , Takuya Maruhashi , Takuya Kurihara , Taku Inaniwa

A new design is proposed for large (up to 6-m) liquid mirror containers. The design uses Kevlar, foam and aluminum, as in previous designs, but with a different configuration that makes the container lighter, stronger and more rigid. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Robert Content

Controlled growth, patterning and placement of carbon nanotube (CNT) thin films for electronic applications are demonstrated. The density of CNT films is controlled by optimizing the feed gas composition as well as the concentration of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 V. K. Sangwan , V. W. Ballarotto , D. R. Hines , M. S. Fuhrer , E. D. Williams

Purpose: Developing photon-counting CT detectors requires understanding the impact of parameters such as converter material, absorption length and pixel size. We apply a novel linear-systems framework, incorporating spatial and energy…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-03-03 Mats Persson , Adam Wang , Norbert J. Pelc

This work is concerned with applying iterative image reconstruction, based on constrained total-variation minimization, to low-intensity X-ray CT systems that have a high sampling rate. Such systems pose a challenge for iterative image…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Emil Y. Sidky , Rick Chartrand , Yuval Duchin , Christer Ullberg , Xiaochuan Pan

Over the past decades, thermal ablation procedures such as high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) have been developed vaporize cancerous tissues in a focal area. Thermal ablation has the potential to non-invasively eliminate tumors and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 Nathan Wang , Petteri Haverinen

We report the achievement of the first atomically resolved scanning tunneling microscope (STM) imaging in a water-cooled magnet (WM), where the extremely harsh vibrations and noises have been the major challenge. This homebuilt WM-STM…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-15 Wenjie Meng , Ying Guo , Yubin Hou , Qingyou Lu

Fragmentation and breakage of rocks is essential to iron ore mining and extraction. The breakage energy requirements and resulting ore particle size and mineral distributions are key to understanding and optimising mining and processing…

Motion management is a critical component of image guidance radiotherapy for lung cancer. We previously proposed a scheme using kV scattered x-ray photons for marker-less real-time image guidance in lung cancer radiotherapy. This study…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-09-11 Yanqi Huang , Kai Yang , Youfang Lai , Huan Liu , Chenyang Shen , Yuncheng Zhong , Yiping Shao , Xinhua Li , Bob Liu , Xun Jia

Objectives Computer vision (CV) is a field of artificial intelligence that enables machines to interpret and understand images and videos. CV has the potential to be of assistance in the operating room (OR) to track surgical instruments. We…

A semiconductor tracker for muon scattering tomography is presented. The tracker contains silicon strip sensors with an $80\,\mu$m pitch, precision mechanics and integrated cooling. The electronic readout of the sensors is performed by a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-30 F. Keizer , A. Gorbatch , M. A. Parker , C. Steer , S. A. Wotton

The ability of detecting and separating CTCs can play a key role in early cancer detection and treatment. In recent years, there has been growing interest in using deformability-based CTC separation microfilters due to their simplicity and…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2016-01-11 Mohammad Aghaamoo , Zhifeng Zhang , Xiaolin Chen , Jie Xu

Purpose: Cone-beam CT (CBCT) plays an important role in image guided radiation therapy (IGRT). However, the large radiation dose from serial CBCT scans in most IGRT procedures raises a clinical concern, especially for pediatric patients who…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Xun Jia , Yifei Lou , Ruijiang Li , William Y. Song , Steve B. Jiang

Many lung diseases require detailed visualisation for accurate diagnosis and treatment. High-resolution computed tomography (CT) is the gold-standard technique for non-invasive lung disease detection, but it presents a risk to the patient…

Radiotherapy is one of the main methods in the successful treatment of cancer. The tumor is irradiated with photons or charged particles (e.g. protons), and in the case of massive charged particles, the treatment results in less unnecessary…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-03-20 Monika Varga-Kofarago

Coded aperture imaging transcends planar imaging with conventional collimators in efficiency and Field of View (FoV). We present experimental results for the detection of 141keV and 122keV {\gamma}-photons emitted by uniformly extended…

X-ray microtomography is a powerful non-destructive technique allowing 3D virtual histology of resected human tissue. The achievable imaging field-of-view, is however limited by the fixed number of detector elements, enforcing the…

The motivation of this work is the detection of cerebrovascular accidents by microwave tomographic imaging. This requires the solution of an inverse problem relying on a minimization algorithm (for example, gradient-based), where successive…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-03-23 P. -H. Tournier , I. Aliferis , M. Bonazzoli , M. de Buhan , M. Darbas , V. Dolean , F. Hecht , P. Jolivet , I. El Kanfoud , C. Migliaccio , F. Nataf , C. Pichot , S. Semenov

[Herdeiro & Doyon Phys., Rev., E (2016)] https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.94.043322 introduced a numerical recipe, dubbed UV sampler, offering precise estimations of the CFT data of the planar two-dimensional critical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-13 Victor Herdeiro